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Lithuania gets prime time on Israel and China TVs

December 1, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

Israeli culinary guru Gil Hovav’s new TV show Open Skies about Lithuania on Keshet 12 channel counted about a million viewers. The half-hour show featured a variety of Lithuanian dishes along with the most interesting stories from different corners of the country. This month, Lithuania has also been shown on four TV editions on Travel China Channel made by reputed China’s traveller Zhang Wei, each show reaching 20 million viewers. The nine-minute shows managed to capture the best of Lithuania, including amber cathing, Samogitian partying, basketball game at the Kaunas Žalgiris Arena, as well as stories about the Lithuanian rain, the old town churches of Vilnius, the miracle tile, Pažaislis, M. K. Čiurlionis’s oeuvre, the Cross Hill, etc., a State Department of Tourism press release states. […]

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Lithuania #1 among Baltic States by number of tourist overnight stays

March 16, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

Tourists spend more nights in Lithuania than in Latvia or Estonia. According to EUROSTAT, the official statistical office of the European Union, in 2016 the number of overnight stays of tourists (local as well as foreign) who stayed in Lithuanian accommodation establishments, including rural tourism, was the largest in the Baltic states and comprised 7 million, while in Estonia and Latvia this number amounted to 6.2 million and 4.4 million respectively, the State Department of Tourism reported in a press release.

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